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While adolescence is a difficult life stage for everyone, today’s teenagers grapple with a range of unique challenges as their minds and bodies change. From navigating social anxiety in a post-pandemic world to protecting self-esteem in our age of technology, teens require new coping techniques and strategies to maintain positive mental health.
This month, Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library presents a selection of resources offering insights and guidance for both teens and the adults who support them. Scroll down to explore a sampling from the Jessica Kingsley Mental Health and Counselling collection: self-development guides, chapters from professional texts, and testimonials that can empower young people as they tackle challenges and strengthen their mental health.
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that many people face. Helping young people understand the ins and outs of their own anxiety can empower them to navigate anxiety-inducing factors more effectively and gain self-confidence. My Anxiety Handbook: Getting Back on Track is a straightforward guide with practical advice for teens that helps reduce feelings of anxiety, including stories from young people who have managed their own symptoms successfully.
This sample chapter offers teens empathetic and practical advice for tackling anxiety using a cognitive behavioural approach.
While panic is a common feeling, it can be particularly debilitating to teenagers facing the challenges of adolescence. In Free from Panic: A Teens Guide to Coping with Panic Attacks and Panic Symptoms, clinical psychologists Monka Parkinson, Kerstin Thirlwall, and Lucy Willets offer advice for teens struggling with panic symptoms or panic disorder using strategies from CBT, ACT, and CFT.
This sample chapter helps teen readers recognize that feelings of panic are normal, using accessible language to help understand the panic experience in the context of three biological brain systems: primitive, limbic, and neocortex.
Questioning one’s appearance can be a rite of adolescent passage, but body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) can turn self-scrutiny into a debilitating condition. Appearance Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder for Young People, Families and Professionals is the first book for teens and adults that explains the causes and impact of BDD. With personal accounts and artwork from young people as well as professional advice on treatment, this resource can help increase awareness, provide solidarity for people with BDD, and alert others to key signs and symptoms.
Read this sample chapter, which focuses on the role the internet and social media play in BDD.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially life-long debilitating disorder, which often emerges during teenage years and affects as many as 1 in every 50 people. Breaking Free from OCD: A CBT Guide for Young People and Their Families, presents a step-by-step guide for adolescents with OCD and their familes, which can used in home treatment or as a self-help resource.
In this provided chapter, authors and leading experts Jo Derisley, Isobel Heyman, Sarah Robinson, and Cynthia Turner help readers of all ages better understand OCD using both clear terms and real-life testimonials from teenagers.
With the right tools, teens and young adults can take ownership of their mental health. Sarah Rawsthorn’s ground-breaking book Mind Mechanics for Teens and Young Adults offers the perfect resource for counselors and educators to help empower young people. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of neurodiversity and social, emotional and mental health, Rawsthorn offers a comprehensive slate of lessons, activities, and games that can be used with individuals or integrated in a schoolwide mental health program.
Read this provided chapter for an overview of mental health disorders addressed in Mind Mechanics.
